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. 2020 Oct 20:12:2515841420964099.
doi: 10.1177/2515841420964099. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ophthalmology services: are we ready for the aftermath?

Darren Shu Jeng Ting  1 , Rashmi Deshmukh  2 , Dalia G Said  3 , Harminder S Dua  1
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ophthalmology services: are we ready for the aftermath?

Darren Shu Jeng Ting et al. Ther Adv Ophthalmol. .
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
A direct month-to-month comparison of clinical and surgical activities in ophthalmology before COVID-19 (June 2019) and during COVID-19 period (June 2020).
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
The number of ophthalmology cases that breached the 18-week referral-to-treatment waiting time for outpatient review (a) and surgery (b). The vertical red dotted line indicated the time point (18 March 2020) where ophthalmic routine services were cancelled.
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